Kyle Rittenhouse regrets going to Kenosha on night of 2020 protest, his mother says
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Closing arguments in the Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, were set to begin Monday. The 18-year-old from Illinois claims he acted in self-defense when he killed two people and wounded a third during a protest in August 2020 over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
The Wisconsin governor has activated about 500 National Guard troops to help respond to any protests of the verdict.
Rittenhouse's mother, Wendy, who has been attending the trial, defended her son in an interview with CBS News correspondent Nancy Chen.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.